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> It reminds me of those 3D user interfaces in the movie Minority Report. Very cool-looking and futuristic. Who wouldn't want that? The answer is anyone whose arms would be tired after a couple minutes of flailing around like that.

"Gorilla arm"[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen#%22Gorilla_arm%22

genpfaulton Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app

> Initially, Paint.net was released under a modified version of the MIT License, with the exclusion of the installer, text, and graphics. It was completely open-source, but because breaches of license, all resource files (such as interface text and icons) were released under a non-free Creative Commons license forbidding modification, and the installer was made closed-source. Version 3.36 was initially released as partial open-source, but Brewster later took down the source code, citing problems with plagiarism. In version 3.5, paint.net became proprietary software. Users are now prohibited from modifying it.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint.net#History

genpfaulton Syncthing: Syncing All the Things

They support arbitrary locations on external SD cards on Android yet?

genpfaulton End of an Era: NTSC Finally Goes Dark in America

Hopefully it takes interlaced video[1] with it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlaced_video

genpfaulton Apollo 11 implementation of Trigonometric functions (1969)

Apparently the lunar rover used CORDIC[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORDIC#Hardware

genpfaulton Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, because I know you are

Gotta build your own version to neuter all the "managed by your organization" tomfoolery though :(

genpfaulton DraftKings: a $21B SPAC betting it can hide its black market operations

Since TFA never got around to it...

SPAC: special-purpose acquisition company[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special-purpose_acquisition_co...

genpfaulton Firefox 89 Tab Appearance

> Anyone know how to get my title bar and window border colors back?

Set browser.proton.enabled to false in about:config. That makes Firefox 89 use the Windows 10 accent color in the titlebar again on my system.

genpfaulton Leaky Abstractions

> doing similar operations to a connected android phone

MTP is terrible[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol#Perfor...

genpfaulton Firefox Release 89.0

This also fixes Firefox not using the Windows 10 accent color in the titlebar[1], thanks!

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1701266

genpfaulton Stanford Bunny

The 6th Platonic solid[1]

[1]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d5/The_Six_Plato...

genpfaulton Text editing hates you too (2019)

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21384158

genpfaulton Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adequacy.org#Notable_stories

genpfaulton Ask HN: Dotfiles Management Tools?

Hardmode: INI canonicalization + some sort of per-section/key .gitignore for 'noisy' or machine-specific data.

genpfaulton Avoid Consumer Routers

Depending on the router, a whole bunch: I had an ASUS router that could only maintain about 150-200 Mbps of NAT traffic using the CPU whereas with the magic cut-through blobs it could do a full 1 Gbps.

genpfaulton 85% Smartphones Powered by Linux

> 85% Smartphones

Is that like an 80% receiver? Just code up a few minor drivers and you have a fully-functional phone?

genpfaulton Lena

> Any ideas on how to detect being the subject of such a simulation without prior knowledge that the upload would happen, or that uploading even exists?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eternity_(novel)&...

genpfaulton Lena

Hmm, sounds a lot like localroger's "Passages in the Void"[1] series, in particular " Mortal Passage"[2].

[1]: http://localroger.com/

[2]: http://localroger.com/k5host/mpass.html

genpfaulton Zooko's Triangle

> .onion addresses and bitcoin addresses are secure and decentralized but not human-meaningful

I thought that's why you burned some CPU hunting for 'vanity' addresses[1]?

[1]: https://opensource.com/article/19/8/how-create-vanity-tor-on...